Putrid Piel, or Putrid Skin in English, is a triptych exploring women's societal roles through the lens of body horror, where the protagonist of each story experiences extreme and horrific changes in their body due to stressors related to their gender—such as forced heterosexual marriage, motherhood, and the expectation of being a perfect caregiver. This “zombification” process is enabled by these women’s lack of agency, creating the transformation that eventually takes control over them. These stories incorporate Puerto Rican phrasing, with cultural translations in the footnotes, within the dialogue and story titles, as they are written from the perspective of the author's Puerto Rican upbringing. In "La Sortija de Sofía," Sofía succumbs to dissociation after being proposed to by her high school boyfriend, the ring around her finger inciting a bodily transformation that leaves her with the desire to cut her finger off. In "Nevada de Sangre," Verónica's difficulties with motherhood after being infected with a zombie-like virus fills her with an insatiable hunger for her daughter, María. In "Huestios Cristalinos," Marina struggles to take care of her recently caner-diagnosed mother, Cristina, after escaping an abusive relationship. All these stories were inspired by the author’s real-life experiences as well as stories she had heard from other women around her growing up in a misogynistic, Puerto Rican society, and speak to her struggles with her own trauma.